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I’m just ploughing through last years Prometheus Award winner for libertarian science-fiction, “The Unincorporated Man”, set in a future where everyone is incorporated at birth and sells bits of their future earning power and so on to others for investment in things like education, and they then spend most of their lives trying to buy back enough stock to give themselves majority control over themselves.

Just perhaps, on the basis that equity is slightly fairer than debt, there’s a germ of an idea in there!

How odd, I’ve been working on a short story with a very similar central mechanic. That there are a number of global corporations to whom our parents sell the right to patent our DNA at birth, and that they then provide all of our health care, and social provision but retain the rights to exploit derivative products based on our DNA…

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